Species Details

ABH: 63.067

BF: 1338

Family: Crambidae

Subfamily: Scopariinae

Taxon: Eudonia lacustrata

=Dipleurina crataegella

Authority: (Panzer, 1804)

Vernacular: Tawny Grey

Account: Common in a wide range of habitats throughout most of Britain, south of the Scottish Highlands. Similar to Eudonia mercurella, but that species has slightly narrower, more pointed forewing, is usually darker coloured, and subterminal line is not interrupted [Goater]. Larva feeds on various mosses, often on walls and tree trunks.

Accounts provided by and used with the kind permission of Mike Wall, Hampshire County Moth Recorder. These will in due course be gradually replaced with species accounts with a Surrey context.

Wingspan: 16 — 18 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 1 May (2010) — 7 Oct (2016)

The flight period of overwintering adults are not given. See the flight chart below the distribution map.

Foodplant:

Foodplant accounts are from the HOSTS database — Natural History Museum, London, UK. (CC0).

Status: Common

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/eudonia-lacustrata/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 186

Individuals: 186

Earliest Year: 1997

Latest Year: 2025

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